EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 30 © 2020 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

11 change things if the hands aren’t right, but when you work from a photo and the hand isn’t right, you have to work it out with a mirror, and that’s more difficult than with a model. A live model would’ve been the number one choice, but it was too expensive, obviously. The models charged considerably then, so everyone worked with pho‐ tos at that point in time because of costs. Most people were making five dollars an hour and they [the models] ABOVE: The Spy , gouache on board. Circa 1960s. BELOW: General Mark’s Manhunt For Europe’s G.I. Vice Lord , gouache on board. Interior illustration in Stag , February, 1962. FACING PAGE: The Wild Women Who Baited a Panzer Division , gouache on board. For Men Only cover, October 1961. Action-packed images such as this, made Künstler such an in- demand artist.